Fighting for change: onset, duration, and recurrence of ethnic conflicts

This dissertation develops an integrated approach to the role of ethnicity in civil wars. “Integrated”here carries a twofold meaning. First, whereas existing quantitative approaches tend to champion explanations of opportunity, while largely discounting the role of motivations, this dissertation develops a theoretical framework that systematically integrates elements from grievance‐based theories into a rationalist logic. Second, whereas current research considers onset, duration, termination, and recurrence of civil wars largely in isolation, both in terms of theory as well as empirical analyses, this dissertation seeks to analyze them as part of an overarching, integrated process.

@phdthesis{fighting-for-change,
title = {Fighting for change: onset, duration, and recurrence of ethnic conflicts},
author = {Wucherpfennig, Julian},
school = {ETH Zurich},
type = {{PhD} dissertation},
doi = {10.3929/ethz-a-007084429},
url = {http://e-collection.library.ethz.ch/view/eth:5332},
year = {2011},
abstract = {This dissertation develops an integrated approach to the role of ethnicity in civil wars. \textquotedblleft Integrated\textquotedblright here carries a twofold meaning. First, whereas existing quantitative approaches tend to champion explanations of opportunity, while largely discounting the role of motivations, this dissertation develops a theoretical framework that systematically integrates elements from grievance-based theories into a rationalist logic. Second, whereas current research considers onset, duration, termination, and recurrence of civil wars largely in isolation, both in terms of theory as well as empirical analyses, this dissertation seeks to analyze them as part of an overarching, integrated process.}
}